linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for HugeTLB

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Message-ID: <8173e254-f129-4f02-98f1-f9b98374a8c4@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:04:26 +0200
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, David Hildenbrand
 <david@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
 Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for HugeTLB

On 6/17/25 20:59, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> Change my role to Maintainer as I am quite involved in HugeTLB development,
> and will be more so with the upcoming HugetLB-pagewalk unification, so I
> would like to help Munchun take care of the code.
> Besides, having two people will help in offloading some pressure.
> 
> Also add David as a Reviewer since he has quite some knowledge in the field
> and has already provided valuable feedback.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

> ---
> I also asked Peter Xu to become a R, but I think he is currently too busy to
> commit to that, but he was happy to be CCed instead :-).

Not sure I understand. R: is the way to get CCd by get_maintainers.pl,
otherwise only the people who know about this would Cc? (unless they
forget). Or you mean to be CCd on this patch?

> I already talked to Munchun and he agreed.
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 4243612aa7ee..7b274ce8a872 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -10975,7 +10975,8 @@ F:	include/linux/platform_data/huawei-gaokun-ec.h
>  
>  HUGETLB SUBSYSTEM
>  M:	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>
> -R:	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> +M:	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> +R:	David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
>  L:	linux-mm@...ck.org
>  S:	Maintained
>  F:	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages